Our planet is heading for another major energy crisis, but this one may be more serious and it may last longer than the others. The past energy crisis were only triggered by some interruptions in the supply from the Middle East. This time, the trigger is the massive growth in global demand, particularly in developing countries like China, India and other smaller countries that are driving the unprecedented demand with rampant development and urbanization.
One of the reasons why we are suffering from this energy crisis is our over-consumption. We have allowed oil to become vital to virtually everything we do. Our transportation, whether by land, air or sea, is fuelled by oil. The goods and food products require the use of oil too. The world consumes more than 80 million barrels of oil a day, that’s more than 29 billion barrels a year and this figure is rising fast, as it has done for decades. The almost universal expectation is that it will keep doing so for years to come. The US government assumes that the demand will grow to around 120 million barrels a day which is more than 43 billion barrels a year by the year 2025. Another cause of this energy crisis is our continuous rebuilding of the ageing infrastructures. Oil is being used to power all the heavy machineries that rebuild and build old and new structures.
A major effect of energy crisis is on education. The rights of children to a good education are lost because they are not in a proper learning environment to be educated where their source or light is always a click away. The second major effect of energy crisis affects the people bellow the poverty line where money is no laughing matter. The people bellow the poverty line is forced to pay a big amount off money for power because of the demand and supply law. When the supply of oil is low, the demand for it is high which leads it to be sold at a high cost.
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you expounded your topic well and you used the right grammar. i like what you did about your paragraph cause its short but understandable.
The article primarily expounds on the use of crude oil. This article is very specific (with both content and numbers) and shows the idea that crude oil is insufficient today, and yet the demand continues to rise.
I liked the way the writer explained the details of the problem directly and also that he included the effects. i also agree that the energy crisis is affecting more than just the environment and the economy. I liked the way the writer explored other things that are affected by the energy crisis.
"Our planet is heading for another major energy crisis,"
-our planet? you should have used "the world" or "our world"...is there other planets that you can state that it has also energy crisis?
"A major effect of energy crisis is on education. The rights of children to a good education are lost because they are not in a proper learning environment to be educated where their source or light is always a click away."
-its not a major effect because only few regions are not being provided with energy. most regions in our country have electricity.
Jutts,
This looks like a problem text only. Remember the structure we discussed? Problem-solution text. You are missing the middle ground where you have to critique some solutions undertaken and then your final paragraph which details your proposed solution. In the revised version, I expect to see these changes.
grammar is good. you can also evaluate the solutions you have said and expound your thoughts in the causes of the problem.
it's really a sad fact fact that we consume so much oil for ourselves JUST for us to get from one place to another. This point taken, we have to start our grand dependency to oil and other petrol products and start using other renewable sources.
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